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Summary

A girl's search for her missing brother leads her to modern-day London--and to a legend trapped away from his world. 

Stats

Genre: YA (16+) magical realism/fantasy

Series length: Two books

Violence: High

Magic/Supernatural: High, mostly circling around the Peter Pan elements

Romance: High

Christian/spiritual element: Subtle worldview

Other Trigger Warnings: This book also deals with additional difficult material like attempted suicide and cutting

Recommendation: Readers needing books dealing the grittier issues of life. 

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Peter Pan.

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Opening Lines:

When did this fairy tale become a nightmare?

I slide my fingers over the worn little book, and the question surfaces again. Each textured hollow in the cover is as familiar as my own lightly freckled skin and chipped nail polish. How many times have I searched this storybook for answers?

​But all I've ever found is a myth. A lie.

Dust (Heirs of Neverland, Book 1)
by Kara Swanson

The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale...

Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real—since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Now Claire's desperate search points to London...and a boy who shouldn't exist.

Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins.

The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan—and herself.

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Falling out of the sky is far less fun than it sounds.

One minutes I'm soaring past the stars, barreling through a veil of color and magic and snatches of children's voices and whispered dreams--and then there it is. It spreads out below me in familiar rugged curves that I know better than my own shadow.

​Neverland.  

Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, Book 2)
by Kara Swanson

Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers.

Desperate to rescue Claire and the fractured Lost Boys, Peter must unravel what truly tore his dreamland apart. But with each step, he is haunted by more of his own broken memories. Not even Pan himself is what he seems.

Claire Kenton is chained to a pirate ship, watching the wreckage of Neverland rocked by tempests. When she finally finds her brother, Connor is every bit as shattered as the island. Claire may have pixie dust flowing in her veins—but the light of Neverland is flickering dangerously close to going out forever.

To rescue Neverland from the inescapable shadow, the boy who never grew up and the girl who grew up too fast will have to sacrifice the only thing they have left: each other.

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